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A few days ago Brandy found my missing lens in the grass. Once all the snow had melted away it was a lot easier to find it seems. It was almost exactly where Amy had hit me in the face with a snowball. Right where I thought it would have been, but I had looked there a number of times while the snow was still there with no luck. But Brandy found it.
So a few minutes ago when the contacts started bothering me I took them out and put the glasses back on. Ahhh!!! Much better! No more contacts for me for awhile. Probably until next time I break my glasses.
I’ll still get new glasses eventually too sometime, but it now drops way down on the priority list again.
On Thursday for the first time I did a locate thing with the phones when all the phones were actually in different places. I had called Brandy a few times and she hadn’t answered, so I checked the locations. She was at home. Amy was at school. I was at work. (Although about to leave for an after work social thingy bop which was fun.)
I like the locator things. I still want to do an auto updated real time map of my own phones location with history going back a few days. That would be cool. Maybe someday.
The first tiny scratch in the finish of my iMac that I bought just under a year ago showed up today. Well, I noticed it today. Thought it was just dust. But it won’t come off. It makes me sad. Now, you have to look closely and pay attention when there is a pure white screen at that spot to really notice. It may have been there for months without me noticing. But now that I *have* noticed, you know I’m going to always notice. I’m just that way.
Oh well. It really isn’t a huge deal, things age as time goes on, and when I’m ready to replace Cronus in early 2009, this will be the least of this machine’s problems.
But I still hate it when the “new thing” isn’t quite new any more.
 This is this year’s school picture of my “little” sister.
Just under 16 months until she is as old as I was when she was born.
Time sure goes by quickly, doesn’t it?
I was a bad brother and missed her birthday this year though. Ended up IMing a happy birthday a few days later. I’ll send a belated present soon, although I haven’t decided what it will be quite yet.
I definitely miss being close enough to visit Cynthia and the rest of my family (both sides of it) on a regular basis. Sometime this year we’ll have to organize a quick trip (or trips) to see my DC family, Brandy’s PA family, and my OH family. The three are so far apart though it is hard to make a quick spontaneous trip for that sort of thing though.
I am glad I have automated daily backups again! My iTunes library got fraked up somehow on Monday. I Moved two files from yesterday’s backup and everything was fine again. Backups are good things. Just gotta get the weekly offsite backup going now too.
OK, so it is a low quality cellphone picture… I don’t make a habit of bringing a “real” camera to the office. But you get the point… Skyscrapers, Puget Sound, Mountains… and a view of my car if I choose to park on the top floor of the garage as I did today.
This is the second office move since I have been in this job. Averaging 6 months between moves, that isn’t too bad. I started out on the 5th floor, then moved to the 1st, now I am on the 3rd and for the first time have a window. Woo! Go windows! (It’s also a little bit bigger than the last one, which was a ittle cramped sometimes.)
Anyway, just moved into the new office this morning. So far I like it.
 So, a little over an hour ago I was playing with Amy in the snow, throwing snowballs at each other. When I came in, I noticed the left lens of my glasses was gone. Somewhere in the snow.
Given that back in January 2005 I lost my main pair of glasses in the ocean and have been on my backup older pair ever since… this means I’ll be wearing contacts for a little while.
I prefer glasses, contacts are such a major pain. I’ll probably go ahead and make an eye doctor appointment and get new glasses in a few weeks. But for now… no glasses for Sam for a little bit.
I’ll try again to look for the lens in the snow tomorrow (it is dark now), but it could basically be anywhere in the back yard. And then yet another look will be in order once the snow melts. If I find it, maybe I’ll wait a bit longer for new glasses, but not too much longer… I should have a backup pair anyway.
This is my 1000th post on this blog. The time between my very first post and this post is 1281.087 days. So I’ve been averaging about 0.781 posts per day, or one post every 1.281 days. Otherwise expressed as one post every 30 hours, 44 minutes and 46 seconds. Or so. I love extra meaningless digits.
For those looking quickly and wondering why my 1000th post has the id “1004” instead of 1000, it is because there were several posts which were accidentally double posted over the years. The second copy was immediately “closed” so it isn’t actually visible, although I have them in the database cause they did sort of happen, but not really. So this is the 1000th real post. Well, strictly speaking the very first post was a default first post by the software, but I left it live, so it counts. :-) But those invisible duplicates don’t. I know I could have decided they did, but they don’t darn it! :-)
Anyway, I roughly try for one post a day, so I’m a little behind that, but not too much behind. So I’m doing OK.
Now, what I post isn’t often the most interesting stuff in the world. Lately even more so than at other times since I started it is just little personal notes that for the most part nobody but me and my immediate circle of friends and family would ever be interested in (and often not them). So there are not really any regular readers that I do not know personally. But that is quite OK. I’ve tried at times writing little bits of commentary on news or tech or whatever, or posting links to fun things I see online… but both take a decent amount of time to do well that I do not have… not to mention there are many hundreds of better places to get that sort of thing. So… I do more the diary sort of thing with the occasional bits about what is going on with my life, things I’m doing, movies I watch, whatever… just random stuff that strikes me and I want to say. And that is fine with me.
And there are now 1000 of such blurbs. Woo. Go me.
At about 17:30 UTC on 11 Jan 2006, plus or minus a few minutes, I walked into work for the first time at my current job. Given the irregular length of a year when measured in days, that means today at about 23:17 UTC (plus or minus a few minutes) I will have been working here for a full year. I have set this post to go live at exactly that time.
It has been a good year. I can’t believe it has gone by so fast!
What with the being across the country from the family for six months, selling the house, moving twice and everything else that has been going on it has been in some ways a tough year. But in many others it has just been great. Sure, there are still things that need to be worked through. But compared to where we were in the time period between March 2005 and December 2005 it is completely night and day. That last nine months at the previous employer was just horrible. Especially the last three months or so.
I still miss the house in Florida and being an owner rather than a renter… even though this house we are renting is pretty nice and I like it too… and we lost a couple of pets that we loved very much… but aside from those items, I can’t think of a single other thing that isn’t better now than it was a year ago.
So. One year. Good deal. Bring on the next year.
Enough 5mm hail to accumulate, switching to snow, with all kinds of slush and drivers who see snow not all that often. The normal drive home is about 17 minutes with no traffic. With traffic it is maybe 25 minutes usually. Today it took four hours and thirty-two minutes to drive the 10.9 miles home. Average speed… 2.4 miles per hour. And a full 16 times longer than normal! Woo!
Of course, I added an extra 30 minutes or so because I decided to go a quarter mile out of the way to stop at Burger King before I got on the highway. That decision cost me half an hour… perhaps a little bit more. And it also made me greatly regret getting a king sized Coke after the next 90 minutes in the car… before I escaped at the very next exit and managed to find a Starbucks to help with that issue… but that probably actually SAVED me some time, because I bypassed a couple of miles of bumper to bumper interstate to go on side roads to find the starbucks and ended up making better time than I would have on the Interstate.
Once off the Interstates there was one really steep hill that some people were having problems with, but I made it up the hill and then managed to get home…
Meanwhile, one hour or so after I left work, Brandy and Amy left a mall (after trying to go, seeing the traffic mess 90 minutes earlier and deciding to just wait a little while longer) that was 2.5 miles from home. They made it a little more than half way home (taking about 3 hours to get that far) then had to leave the car by the side of the road because they were on a hill that had become completely blocked by two large trucks (one of them a tow truck) who had gotten stuck on the hill and all the dozens of other cars that people had left because they could go no further. So they got out and walked the little bit more than a mile left home. They got home about 1 or 2 minutes after I did. They saw me pull into our street when they were almost there. Ha! I beat them!
Anyway, school has already been canceled for tomorrow. There is a good chance I will end up working from home tomorrow unless everything has been all cleared up by then. (Which it might be I guess, it doesn’t actually seem THAT bad… I’ve seen much worse back east, but of course they know a bit better how to handle snow it seems.) In any case, we’ll have to go retrieve Brandy’s car as soon as things seem to have normalized a bit. For the moment the weather people say there is more yet to come, and it won’t be above freezing again for several days, so what is coming down won’t be going anywhere fast.
Fun stuff.
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